“The net … is such a wide place and it is hard to police it all. We are working assiduously with our legal team, our internet monitoring company Net Results out of the UK and we are working along with the GCC (Global Cricket Corporation) and the ICC with the whole Anti-Infringement Programme to try to combat these things,” Price said.

“We’ve gotten a lot of help from supporter groups who have pointed out these sites to us and we have sent through our solicitors’ letters and many of them have complied.

“For those of them whom we haven’t seen yet, we are warning persons they should purchase their tickets from bona fide ticket sales agents.”